Author: Importer

STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has announced new orders that include two 3,500TEU container ships plus two more options giving a total contract price of $ 171 million from Reederi Nord Klaus…

Providing almost half of all bearings used in Wärtsilä machinery, Austrian company Miba AG has been chosen as the engine manufacturer?s Supplier of the Year for 2003.The reasons underlying Miba's choice are…

By developing series production of a full range of modern-design bulk carriers - ranging from handysize up to capsize - at Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) yards, UK-based Graig Group will build…

Guangzhou Shipyard International in China has set its sights on the handysize bulk carrier newbuilding market. The shipbuilder plans to build 11 handysize bulk carriers and three 5,000DWT bulk carriers each year…

Former General Secretary of the IMO, Bill O'Neil, is to be the new President of UK-based maritime training company Videotel Marine International. "Bill O'Neil has done a great deal to promote the…

An explosion on board the Singapore-flagged products tanker Bow Mariner on Sunday resulted in three crew dead and a further eighteen missing. While carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of ethanol, the…